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Building A Modern Stonehenge In New Zealand
Flexagon writes "Wired News is reporting that a group of astronomy enthusiasts in New Zealand is building its own version of Stonehenge in a little more than a year. Why? "We came up with the idea of Stonehenge because it doesn't matter who you are -- everyone looks at the Pyramids and Stonehenge and structures like that (and asks) who built them, why did they build them?" says Richard Hall, president of the Phoenix Astronomical Society. Yet another reason to book a ticket!"
Before building it, remember that ' is feet and " is inches.
It has been determined recently that Stonehenge was a giant vagina.
It annoys me that some are insisting that the (future) EU constitution must stress Europe's Christian roots.
As sites like Stonehenge show, Europe doesn't have Christian roots. It's roots are pagan. Christianity is a foreign religion for Europe. I think we should insist on the constitution stressing Europe's pagan roots. Now that would be cool!
As I understand TFA, this is an attempt to build a working astronomical calendar and explain people what was it used for (I'm shure many believe it was an alien airport, or whatever), and not to build just another Eiffel tower/Keops pyramid/Liberty statue clone.
"The whole idea of the henge is that people can come out here and learn real basic astronomy, the real foundations of what astronomy is all about," says Richard Hall, the infectiously enthusiastic and indefatigable project manager and president of the Phoenix Astronomical Society, which is building the Kiwi henge.
Who's country precisely did you mean? I am not really sure that the modern Britism Isles can claim stonehenge as their 'heritage' when it was built thousands of years ago by a very different people, who were later nearly erradicated by the Romans.
The next thing you know they will be stealing your Arthurian mythology.
At least your still have your cuisine...
Yet another reason to book a ticket!
Husband: I know we've been flying for 13 hours to get here but let's go right to see Stonehenge Aotearoa.
[later]
Wife: This is it? It's a bunch of rocks!
Husband: No, no, you don't understand. This is astronomically significant!
Wife: [reading plaque] "Time to harvest the kumara" What's a kumara?
Husband: It's a sweet potato.
I imagine at this point the wife will sacrifice the husband on the pagan altar, or whatever they install at this thing.
It annoys me that some are insisting that the (future) EU constitution must stress Europe's Christian roots.
;)
As sites like Stonehenge show, Europe doesn't have Christian roots. It's roots are pagan. Christianity is a foreign religion for Europe. I think we should insist on the constitution stressing Europe's pagan roots. Now that would be cool!
Every thing is foreign at some point - even the pagan cults surrounding Stonehedge probably draw from older pagan cults who appeared and developed outside of Europe
Concerning the Constitution, I think Christianity should be mentioned since its role in Europe's history was indeed crucial. However, other religions who played a big role, including paganism (both Greek/Roman and Celtic), Judaism and Islam. Anyway, it's just a historical mention with no legal strength, and thus its effect is just symbolic.
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Sam hill already built a Stonehenge replica near Goldendale, WA USA. It's near the Mary Hill museum of Art, noted for it's collection of relics from the last czars of Russia... some of the few that didn't burn when the revolution came.
I believe it was built as a 1st World War memorial rather then to study astrometry.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
Come on! A stone circle built in NZ isn't going to work properly. Stonehenge on its own is just a pile of rocks. You need a properly aligned networks of temples and natural features to generate the correct psychic energy flows.
Once again, no reason to renew my subscription to the pulp version of wired when I can get it free online, just a few weeks later...
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As a New Zealander, all I can say is WTF? I'll stick to my Maori/PI/Asian/Antipodean/etc culture thanks (yeh I'm white but screw it, I'm not European, I'm a New Zealander). I don't really get the need to build a "me too" monument to astronomy, but hey, if it floats his boat let him build it.
Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
You do know that you are seriously going to confuse the aliens when you put stonehenge in the southern hemisphere.
Philip
Signatures are broken
Nebraskans already built a replica of Stonehenge
Actually they are scheming to reconfigure the Earth's axis of rotation for arcane purposes. Why else build it more or less exactly opposite England?
:-) for the humor-impaired.
The two circles are ectoplasmic bearings. When Stonehenge B is up and running, all of the ley lines will snap together through the line between them, the planet will be wrenched into a new and more mystical rotational mode, and astronomers will rule the world! (Hey, it's easier than building a dimensional redistributor -- the tubes are so hard to come by.)